UM-Flint hosting Veterans Day ceremony

FLINT, MI -- A Veterans Day celebration is planned at the University of Michigan-Flint.

The annual Veterans Day Ceremony will begin 10 a.m. Nov. 12 in the UM-Flint Theatre, where the UM-Flint Choral is scheduled to perform.

This year’s event is dedicated to Beulah Alexander, who died this fall and was "integral to launching the annual Veterans Day observance," according to a news release.

The University of Michigan-Flint

Alexander was a longtime UM-Flint employee who came to the campus in in 1989. She started in the Registration & Records Office. Later on, she became the first executive secretary for the School of Education and Human Services.

She died unexpectedly in her home on Sept. 20.

After the ceremony in the Theatre will be a rededication of the Student Veterans Center in the University Pavilion.

Chancellor Ruth Person will speak at the re-dedication, and she will make "a major announcement that will benefit student veterans at UM-Flint," according to the release.

The university has been recognized as one of the most military friendly in the country, being one of 14 universities designated as part of the distinguished Tillman Military Scholars program.

Pat Tillman left a successful professional football career to serve in the Army. He was killed in Afghanistan in 2004.